Method of sewing on buttons



June 28, 1927.

1,633,614 C. T. A. SIBBALD ET AL METHOD OF SEWING 0N BUTTONS Original Filed April 27. 1922 Patented June 28, 1927. l I UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

CHARLES T. A. SIBBALIO AND JOHN B. RANSOM, F TROY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNORS, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, T0 FREDERICK OSANN COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

METHOD OF SEWING ON BUTTONS.

Original application filed April 27, 1922, Serial No. 557,011. Divided and this application filed .Tune 28, 1924. Serial No. 721,650.

This invention relates to a method of sewtherewith, and passes down through the maing on buttons whereby the stitches are terial 62 and through the hole 63 in the 55 widely distributed in the material by more needle plate 64 as shown in Figure 1. F 01- points of anchorage than there are holes lowing the usual looper movement the needle 8 1n the button so that they can not be readreturns to above the plane of the button ilv torn therefrom and to the attachment and immediately following this operation 0 buttons by this method, the subject matthe material is moved relative to the button M ter of the, present invention being divided and sewing mechanism laterally to arrange out from our application for patent Serial the hole in the material through which the I No. 557,011 filed April 27, 1922, for button initial stitch passed out of allnement with sewing machine, in which is disclosed a mathe hole in the button as shown in Figures chine for sewing on buttons according to 2 and 4. The end of the thread is thus 05 this method. offset from the alined holes 59 in the button More particularly this invention relates and 63 in plate 64, causing the material to to a method of so relatively manipulating exert a bindin action upon the thread a two hole button and the material that which extends between it and the top of the attaching stitch loops pass through the the needle plate as shown in Figure 4, 7 two holes in the button and through four this preventing the end of the thread from spaced portions of the material. This is being drawn up through the hole in the done by moving the material relative to the button .in a subsequent stitch. Both the button in a direction transverse to a line button and the material are then moved reljoining the holes of the button during the ative to the needle and needle plate so that 7 sewing operation so that stitches are passed the needle successively .StltCheS through the through holes in the button and through the holes 60 and 59 alternately and through the material in two relative positions of the material therebetween as shown in Figures button and material spaced apart in a di- 5, 6, and 7. The end of the thread is shown rection transverse to a line joining the holes at m on Fi re 11 and the succeeding in the button. stitches are s own as chain loops at n, p

For a more complete understanding of and this invention reference may be had to the F0 lowing a predetermined number of accompanying drawings in whichstitches through the holes in the button and Figures 1 to 10 are diagrammatic lllllS- the material, the material is again moved 86 trations of the successive steps in attachrelative to the button and stitching mechaing a two hole button according to the nism transversely ofa line joining the holes method of this invention. in the button, as shown in Figures 8 and Figure 11; is a diagrammatic view illus- 11, thus bringing the initial stitch a again trating the engagement of the stitch loops in alignment with the hole 59 of the butas effected by a single thread machine on ton so that on subsequent stltching through the back face of the material before the the hole 59 of the button the stitches pass completion of the sewing operation. through the material close to this initial Referring to Figures 1 to 10, 2 indicates stitch and lies on the back of the material a sewing machine needle, though it is evias loops 1:, s,t (Flgurell). The large loop dent that the type of needle is of no imu shown in Figure 11 is the loop last made, portance, 61 is a two hole button having which, when the work is in t e machine, holes 59 and 60 therein. 62 indicates the would be engaged over the looper for the material to which the button is to be atpassage of the next loop tberethrough on tached and 64 is a needle plate on which the next descent of the needle. The holes 1 the material rests and which has a hole 63 in the material through which the previous through which the needle passes on its sewseries of stitches passed are then out of 50 ing or piercin" and its oppositely directed line with the holes in the button as shown retracting stro es. in Figures 8, 10 and 11. The stitching is In the initial stitch the needle 2 enters continued alternately through the two holes 106 the hole 59in the button, drawing the thread of the button and through the material until the reqhlired number of stitches have through each hole of the tton and diverging to and from its -lower end through spaced portions of the material as shown best in Figure 10, the diverging groups a, a and b passin through the hole 59 of the button and tl ie diverging groups c and passing through the h 1 It W111 thus be seen that t to the material points of anchorage. It will be noted that the button and the material are maintainedm substantially the same angular relat on throughout the stitching operation, being substantially parallel to each other at all times. I

Having thus described this invention it should be evident that various changes and modifications might be made therein without departing from its spirit or scope as defined by the appended claims.

We claim 1. A method of securing buttons having a plurality of holes to material which consists in stitching by alternate material piercing and oppositely directed retracting needle strokes through the holes in the button to the material, and then relatively at four distinct spaced moving the button and material so that the stitches through the holes will be anchored in the material out of line with the holes in the button through which they pass, then subsequently stitching by a continuation of such strokes through the same holes in the button in that part of the material then alined therewith.

2. The herein described method of securing a button having a plurality ofholes to material which consists in stitching through the holes in succession by alternate material piercing and oppositely directed retracting needle strokes, and passing a portion of said stitches through the material at definite anchorage points and the remaining portion of said stitches throu h the same holes in the button and throng the material at other definite anchorage points spaced from said first mentioned anchorage points.

3. The herein described method of securing a plural hole button to material which consists in passin stitch loops alternately through the holes in the button and anchoring said loops through the material at a number of points in excess of the number of holes in the button.

4. The herein described method of securing a two hole button to material which consists in placing a lurality of loop stitches through the holes in the button alternately. and moving the material relative to the button to another position following a predetermined numher of such stitches less than the whole, whereby to provide four anchorage points for the stitches in the material.

5. The method of securing a plural hole button to material which consists in passing stitching loops through the holes in succession and diverging the loops from each hole to and through spaced points in the material.

6. The method of securing a plural hole button to material which consists in passing stitches alternately through the holes in the button and anchoring said stitches through the material at a number of points diflerent from the number of holes in the button while maintaining the angular relation between the button and the material substantially constant.

\ 7. The method of securing a plural hole button to material, which consists in passing stitches alternately through the holes in the button, and while maintaining the button and material in substantially arallel planes, anchoring the stitches in t e material at points in excess of the number of holes in the button.

8. The method of sewing a button to material which comprises stitching the button to the material by a plurality of stitches, then shifting the button relative to the material. while maintaining their angular relation substantially constant, and then continuing the stitching in substantially the same relation to the button but engaging the material at points spaced from the first stitches.

9. Means for attaching a button to material, which comprise stitches passing over the button from one to another hole therethrough, and having loops assing through said holes and through a ifi'erent number of holes in the material.

10. Means for attaching a button to material, Which comprise stitches passing over the button from one to another hole therein, and having loops passed through said holes and extending from each of said holes to spaced points in the material.

11. Means for attaching a two hole button to material, which comprise stitches passing over the button from one to the other hole, and having loops extending through said two holes and engaging the material at four s aced points.

12. cans for attaching a buttonto material, which comprise stitches passing over said button from one to another hole in the button, and having loops extending through said holes and engaging each other in chain stitch formation on the back face of the material, the loops extending from one hole in the button to the material engaging the material at a plurality of spaced points.

13. Means for attaching a button to material which comprises two groups of loop stitches passing through each hole of the button, the stitches of the respective groups ing and extending to and engaging the diverging from the holes of the button and material at spaced points. engagin the material at spaced points. In testimony whereof we have aflixed our 10 14. M ans for attaching a button to matesignatures. 5 rial, which comprise 100p stitches passing 7 through a hole in said button, the stitches CHARLES T. A. SIBBALD. emerglng from one end of said hole diverg- JOHN B. RAN SOM. 

